Nips and Tucks

SUMMARY

Louis Jourdan operates on some girl's face. His girlfriend, Barbara, calls him from a phone booth, advising him to "lose" the case file on a former patient. Then she pushes button in a large control panel in her purse, and a car blows up across the street.

To the office! The Angels are passing around an 8x10 of the victim, a wanted convict. Charlie explains that he completely altered his appearance courtesy of renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Redmont (Louis Jourdan), and warns that someone named Brad Collins - who he suspects is really an affiliated crook named Bill Maddox - is also about to check into Dr. Redmont's clinic for a change of face. Got it? No? Too bad.

Dr. Redmont and Barbara sip champagne and discuss a broad overview of their relationship history for our benefit; it turns out she's a former patient and he has a Pygmalion complex over her. She sells him a long, unlistenable-to story about how bad guy Collins/Maddox will "come after her" if Redmont doesn't agree to change his face.

Armed with fake credentials, Tiffany talks to head nurse Elena at the clinic and cons her way into a job as an RN, ultimately getting hired based on the fact that she bothered to look up the names of surgeries to lie about having assisted with. Elena immediately puts Tiffany in a room with their most fragile, depressed patient, a girl named Julie whose entire head is bandaged except for one eye hole.

Meanwhile, Bosley is being examined by Dr. Redmont and Kris, who's playing his cold socialite wife; she repeatedly insults his appearance and insists that he needs surgery.

Barbara and Collins/Maddox emerge from an airport terminal together, and he gives her money for killing the guy at the beginning (in case it wasn't already obvious they're in cahoots).

On the grounds of his surgery ranch, Collins/Maddox tells Dr. Redmont he wants his face changed, presenting him with a bundle of cash if "yes", and a weight machine to break his hands with if "no". Redmont agrees.

Tiffany befriends Julie by telling her the story of a little girl whose face got smashed, and then got surgery and turned out okay. She then complains to Redmont that some man stopped her when she tried to enter Collins/Maddox's room, and he explains it away as a paranoid celebrity case. She can't even get a look at the guy to confirm it's Maddox.

Kelly, posing as some ambiguous bank person, sits down with Mrs. Redmont for a chat about his affair and imminent divorce. The wife knows, and seems perfectly accepting, and her attitude doesn't change at all when Kelly confesses her real identity for no reason. Conveniently, the wife just happens to have a magazine with a photo spread of Barbara within arm's length.

Whisking the magazine away for evidence, Kelly convenes with the others in Bosley's hospital room, where Tiffany's attempting to serve her cranky patient a meager dinner of peas and orange jello. Passing the magazine around, Kelly identifies Barbara as a "homecoming queen turned explosive expert for the underground."

Barbara has a chat with Nurse Elena in her private office, where she's sitting studying an 8x10 of Collins/Maddox. "I know this face, but the name's wrong...Maddox... Bill Maddox!" She knows too much. Barbara nips this problem in the bud by clubbing Elena over the head and stuffing her body in a closet.

When Tiff gets off work, the girls gather at the office to call Charlie (because there aren't phones anywhere else on Earth) where he instructs them to continue blindly following his hunch. He tells Kelly and Kris to get an ambulance so that they can nab Collins/Maddox on his way to surgery the next day.

Bosley: "How do I look?"
Tiffany: "Uh... Dr. Kildare you're not."

20 minutes before surgery, Tiff stumbles on Elena's body in the closet, which explains why she's not prepping for surgery. She loudly theorizes that Elena was killed because she recognized Maddox. While discussing this, both she and Redmont fail to notice Barbara entering the room with a gun. Barbara reasons that Tiffany seems bright, and so is qualified to take Elena's place as the anesthesiologist.

Scrubbing for surgery, Tiffany suggests to Redmont that she bleed the lines, letting ether and oxygen into the air, which would make everything go boom if someone were to fire a gun in the operating room. They literally say these words at plain volume within feet of a listening henchman, who does not object.

Kelly and Kris roll up in an ambulance, only to have Bosley explain that the whole ambulance thing didn't pan out, and Maddox is already in surgery. In a laughable Plan B, they put Kelly on a gurney and attempt to wheel her into surgery, where they're immediately stopped by a henchguard. Kelly sits up with a gun, says "Freeze," and tells Kris to tie the guy up with surgical gauze.

Meanwhile in the operating room, Tiff and Redmont refuse to operate, explaining to Barbara (the explosives expert) about the ether. Stuck, Barbara drops the gun and holds Tiff at scalpelpoint instead, ordering Redmont to go ahead with the surgery. Luckily, the rest of the gang bursts in with a gurney, knocking down another henchman and allowing Tiff to get the drop on Barbara while Kelly and Kris pose in the doorway.

After a commercial break, it's finally time to take Julie's gauze off to reveal - GASP - not only has Redmont given her a flawless face, but full makeup and freshly styled hair as well!

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CURIOSITIES

• In the opening surgery scene, are all the overhead lights off? And why does Redmont casually warn his nurse/anesthesiologist to be careful around the ether and oxygen, like it's an interesting trivia tidbit they didn't know? What awkward foreshadowing.

• Nurse Elena's severe makeup makes her look like something out of The Wiz.

• When Tiffany explains that she was a nurse's aide in high school, she adds that she "hasn't so much as given a back rub in 3 years." Surely this is not meant to sound like she was in high school 3 years ago? Hey, did they ever specifically say she graduated from Whitley College...?

• Why does Redmont tell Barbara the whole story of her surgery, and why and how he fell in love with her, as if this is the first time they've discussed it? She's lighting up like it's brand new information. "You mean my surgery was a success??"

• Why does Kelly correct Charlie's term "hitwoman" to "hitperson"?

• Why did Redmont's wife just happen to have the Barbara Brown magazine right there? And without the pages slashed, or X's drawn through her face? Odd.

• Why did Barbara hide Elena's body, but leave the dropped 8x10 of Maddox right there on the floor? Sloppy work, hitperson.

• Right after Tiffany picks up the Maddox picture, Redmont calls her from the other room - why does she quickly open the closet door like she was going to hide in there?

• Could Bosley's attempt to get Maddox on the gurney have been any more eyebrow-raising for the bad guys? Could he and Redmont stare at each other any longer?

• In that same scene, the cart which Tiffany had been pushing is absent from her closer shots - instead she's pantomiming holding the cart. Unfortunately it's a bit too visible, and it looks like she's making little Superman fists.

• Tiffany and Redmont discuss their plan to fill the operating room with ether and oxygen, which will cause an explosion if Barbara fires her gun. They say these words out loud in plain English, mere feet away from a henchman who has nothing else to do but listen. The only thing stupider than Tiff and Redmont's obviousness is that guy's failure to get it. Was he deaf?

• Why did Kris, Kelly and Bosley bother with the whole gimmick about putting Kelly on a gurney and pretending she was a patient? They could have saved a lot of time by just walking up to the henchman with a gun.

• Speaking of guns, why does only Kelly have one at the end?

• Hope it's not possible for metal hitting metal to make a spark - like, say, a gurney forcibly hitting the push plates on the operating room doors. Actually, Kelly could have shot Barbara and killed everybody - she didn't know about the ether situation.

• If Barbara had cut up Tiffany's face, wouldn't that just be more business for Dr. Redmont? It's kind of like threatening to smash up your mechanic's car.

• Dr. Redmont simply watched with approval when Bosley burst into the operating room and administered anesthesia to Bill Maddox. Is that something a renowned surgeon would really let a layperson do? At this point, he still thinks Bosley is just a weirdo patient who's somehow gotten into scrubs and is acting like he works there. Same for "Mrs. Bosley" who has also randomly entered the room, out of character, and dressed like an ambulance driver. There's really nothing Redmont wants to ask?

BAD GUYS BEAT DOWN

BIMBOS

SHOTS FIRED AT ANGELS

SHOTS FIRED BY ANGELS

DAYS TO SOLVE CASE

PATIENTS BEFRIENDED

TURTLENECKS (KELLY)

CHARACTER DEATHS

ACTION

Bosley bowls over a random henchman when he bursts into the operating room with a gurney. Tiffany pulls the old Angel Elbow on Barbara and wrestles her into submission by pulling her hair. She winces and groans almost as bad as Grinelda from Angels in the Backfield, even though Tiffany isn't really doing anything very painful (that we can see, anyway). Kelly and Kris pose in the doorway making "Oh Tiffany, that's precious!" faces instead of helping.

FASHION

For a show so often criticized for its jiggle, this episode has everyone covered up from head to toe. Barbara and Kris wear furs multiple times, and a year after Sabrina is gone, Kris, Kelly, and even doomed anesthesiologist soul sister Elena sorta wear turtlenecks. Did Sears renew their relationship with the show after this episode?

Something subtly irritating is that Kelly and Kris' matching ambulance uniforms are not quite identical, as Kris' sweater has a cowl neck while Kelly's is sort of a mock turtleneck. Maybe only the jackets were the uniform, and they had to dig around in their closets for shirts that sorta matched. Thankfully no one at the clinic was observant enough to notice if they didn't look exactly right. Or vaguely in the ballpark. Or even in the right sport. Did 1980 EMT uniforms usually incorporate turtleneck sweaters and wedges..?

Wardrobe Repeat
Kelly wears the same coat from Angel's Child.

Nips and Tucks

Angel's Child

EEK, HIS WIFE IS A FEMBOT

Corrinne Camacho plays Dr. Redmont's long-suffering separated from wife Angela, whom Kelly tries to comfort/plug for info. Corrinne Camacho also played Fembot #2 Lynda in the classic crossover episodes Kill Oscar on the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman in 1976. Dr. Redmont apparently traded in one cold deadly killing machine with a plastic face for another (assassin Barbara). Well, at least he has a type.

GOOD HAIR DAYS

For the third and final time Tiffany gets an episode dedicated almost entirely to her, and the dynamic of her hair and usefulness are once again in full effect. With straight long hair Tiffany is able to handle herself undercover and in a physical confrontation (see Angel On Campus and Of Ghosts and Angels), but when Tiffany has poofy frizzy hair she tends to fail at both (see Angel Hunt, Angels at the Altar). This week, it's smooth sailing all around for the calm, cool and collected Miss Welles.

SCREEN TIME ANALYSIS

Tiff gets twice as much time Kelly and Kris - but at 20 minutes compared to their 10, that's still not a whole lot of attention. Over a third of the hour is devoted to Dr. Redmont and various bad guys, making Nips and Tucks one of the series' emptier episodes in terms of presence of the main cast.

KELLY

KRIS

TIFFANY

BOSLEY

HOW MUCH OF THE EPISODE HAS AT LEAST ONE ANGEL/BOSLEY IN IT64%

BRING KLEENEX

Why does Dr. Redmont act like Tiffany's story about her cousin was so profound and touching? Here's the entire story, because it's that short: "I knew a girl once. She was happy, outgoing. She was a beautiful girl. Until one night on the way to a a school dance, her face went through a windshield. It was two years of plastic surgery and therapy before she got her face back. And you know who she had to thank for it? A doctor, one very much like Dr. Redmont." Wow, be careful not to flesh out that idea at all, or viewers might infer something about Tiffany's background/family! We're not even sure if this is a real cousin or a pretend cousin. Julie seems encouraged, even though the story seemed to emphasize the difficult recovery more than the happy outcome. How does Dr. Redmont really intend to "use" that? This is reminiscent of that incredibly weak, tweet-sized fairy tale Kelly tells Skip in To Kill an Angel.

ALL SETUP, NO PAYOFF

After the whole subplot of Dr. Redmont's affair/divorce, and Kelly playing counselor to the abandoned Mrs. Redmont, and Bosley giving the Doc a subliminal nudge about missing his first wife, it's amazing when the episode ends without any suggestion that they might reconcile. An earlier draft of the script did put them back together at the end, but it was cut, leaving that subplot wholly unsatisfying. Not that we were riveted to the topic of the supporting characters' marriage, but it makes Kelly's scene with the wife sort of a purposeless loose end. Julie's (Rogers) marriage counseling in Island Angels will later put Kelly's efforts to shame.

UN-THREAT

The bad guys' method of intimidating/blackmailing Dr. Redmont into helping them left a lot to be desired. A big deal was made about Redmont's surgical skills, which is why he was the only one that could change the face of the wanted mob guy. Yet how do the bad guys threatren the Doctor into helping them? They say if he doesn't they will A) break his fingers or B) shoot him. Well, a broken handed dead plastic surgeon won't do the bad guys any good. Wouldnt it have been more effective to threaten a loved one, maybe? Like his wife, who they actually bothered to introduce and make sympathetic?

COVER, SCHMOVER

Again, Kelly is just really not into the whole "cover" thing anymore. Clocking in at exactly one minute, this is the fastest an Angel has ever confessed their identity (and under absolutely no duress). Her schtick is being the kind/sympathetic Angel, (sometimes), we get that, but there is a point where she could become so sympathetic that it interferes with her ability to perform certain aspects of her job. The others need to maybe put Kelly on paperwork duty from now on, instead of anything requiring the mildest deception.

REPEAT OFFENDERS

This is a rare episode which has no actors recycled from other episodes.

Don Chaffey also directed Mother Angel, Terror on Skis, Angels on the Street, Angels on Skates, Angels on Campus, Harrigan's Angel, Island Angels, He Married an Angel, and Mr. Galaxy.

OUR TAKE

Anna's Rating: If this episode serves no other purpose, and it doesn't, it's a boon to the character of Tiffany Welles. We got to see her being smart, competent, compassionate, funny, and even a Shelley Hack version of sorta tough (if only she'd stop turning into a 40's gangster to deliver those lines). It's one that really makes you sad that Tiff had to go back East. I'm glad they (the writers) allowed her to genuinely be good at nursing instead of blundering around for comedic effect. This should be her real career. I'm not sure why, but something about Tiffany's delivery of her cousin story always gives me an inkling that she's talking about herself. That would have been more interesting, wouldn't it? Her face is too flawless, but then so are the other patients', so why not. I loved the Kris and Bosley routine, although it makes me wish that, just once, there was a cover where he got to be mean to her instead.

Those bits aside, it's pretty lame. The only thing worse than a boring episode is a complicated boring episode. The opening office briefing grinds everything to a halt, throwing us a barrage of names and aliases when we don't even know or care what's going on yet. My brain makes the announcement, "I'm already lost - you can stay and look at the pictures if you want, but I'm out."

Louis Jourdan and Tab Hunter are some of Charlie's Angels bigger guest stars, but that doesn't help. Good episodes (according to me) are the ones about the Angels and how they investigate a case. I'd call this a poster child for the Season 4 trend of trying to focus on the actual case itself, giving the client/victim/bad guy a large share of attention, as if we're equally interested. Nobody fought over who got to play Dr. Redmont on the playground the next morning. This episode feels like when you go to the zoo and all the animals are asleep way, way at the back of the enclosure, and to compensate, the guide is trying to impress you about what kinds of imported native flora are in there. But flora is boring, and you just want to poke the leopard/Jaclyn Smith with a stick and hope they'll wake up and do something cool. But it's not their fault. It's just not one of those scripts where stuff happens.

I think it could have been improved by including the very scenes that were glossed over. Kelly and Kris "got" an ambulance. How? I'd put that in there. Target: Angels taxi theft rehash - boom, best scene of the episode. Mrs. Redmont could get angry and throw Kelly out, as she suggested. Kris trying to tie that guy up with gauze. Even Bosley sneaking around the clinic in his snowsuit - the bar isn't high.

Any Tiff-centric episode gets a thumbs up from me! I ♥ Tiffany. She’s smart, she’s beautiful, and she has that great bouncy walk. I even love her hair, straight or poofy. Of course the episode is not exactly Masterpiece Theatre. It plays more like a fun B movie from the late 70’s starring former movie stars Louis Jordan, Joanna Pettet and Tab Hunter. They Will Be Remembered! Every time I watch the ludicrous scene of the removal of Julie’s bandages, I secretly wish she’d be revealed to be Julie ROGERS. If only George Lucas could get his hands on the episode and digitally add Tanya Roberts in there. It would be pretty cool to get a Tiffany and Julie scene. Or the girl behind the gauze could have turned out to be Divine, ending up in the arms of Bill Maddox. Now that would’ve been quite a reunion! 🙂

Anthonydeutsch

I also agree I lve everything about her and watch her episodes every night.

Gharpo34

i really enjoyed this episode, i thought shelly was great , x

sgs

I agree, that this episode is a ‘classic’. It’s actually ahead of it’s time dealing w plastic surgery and all. I love this episode! I love Tiffany!

Anthonydeutsch

Thats our Charlie Girl always ahead of the times a true trend setter, not just in fashion but also in life leading the way into the 80’s how woman would think, act, and be percieved for ever. I love her to death, she appears to be like a chameleon with a whole bunch of different faces for each role and sub-role she played, I never saw anybody that could change her look that often. I guess that came from being an in demand model always having to stay a step ahead of the crowd in order to stay in demand, i think she called it identifying the markets. So under rated and at the time unappreciated. As I still watch season daily and love it as much as the first, I keep noticing little things about her with each and every watch.I’m beginning to think she was way too ahead of her time ,probably too ahead for Charlies Angels because she had all the ingrediants were there for success.lead, follow, or get out of the way, the 80’s were ushered in.

Anthonyddeutsch

Great acting job by Shelly ,it appears that once they (producers) got her hair and make up right tiff was gorgeous. Her look outstanding in cruising angels, she could have passed for Cheryl Tiegs sister. Charlies most gorgeous, sexist angle with that face, legs, and that intoxicating stare. She proves that there is more to a womans beauty than just big breasts popping out of a bikini top. Pure Class personified.

Anthonyddeutsch

Don’t frown, you will get wrinkles, to Barbara Brown. There is that New England sass with class.

Anthonydeutsch

Another fine attempt at integrating Tiffany and developing her, we learn more things and skills Tiff has. Shelley does a good job acting out her part and wonce again she has playful moments with Bosley, to me there are now too many episodes written by guest writers where Shelley does a fine job acting. Hard core proof she was robbed and sabatouged by Lakso as usual Tiffany is beautiful in all her scenes and she has that great bouncy walk(same as in her charlie girl perfume commercial). It also has its moments of humor.I never get bored with Tiffany,I never want to miss a single facial expression because they are priceless.She has a gorgeous mouth and an ear to ear smile.She looks like a girl you would bring home to meet your mother.

Anthonydeutsch

Shelley Hack as Tiffany Welles always looks cute and beyond gorgeous but I can;t help but noticing how versatile of an actress she really is and able to adapt to any sub- character role they give her,she was a perfect replacement or even a brand new angel character not replacing anyone. I use to think s/g were smart exec. producers but I quickly changed my mind when I saw what they were and were not doing with this unique character, they were not on top of their game and really blew a rare chance in recognising a special talent who could have provided years of interesting service. I wish we could somehow bring Tiff back,cause I really miss her so I watch season four almost every night.Thank to Anna and Holly for letting us relive our past dreams.

Anthonydeutsch

Somehow I always felt like dr. redmont would find his true love with Tiffany and they would fall in love and run the clinic and bosley and the girls would ride off into the sunset in bosley’s t-bird

Heather

hi anthony, i was wondering if you know when any new episode guides will be added?

Anthonydeutsch

hello heather, unfortunetly I don’t know either and i anxiously await like everyone else, i really don’t know what is taking so long, i would love to see more of us fans communicating, seeing as this is the only outlet we have

Heather

I know, there are some episodes that i am just DYING to see reviewed. And i would also love to see fans communicating and sharing opinions and ideas 🙂 and thank you for responding so quickly! This truely is an amazing site, and much more in depth and humorous than other places i have come across.

Anthonydeutsch

hello again heather, thank you for responding, it makes my day to talk with other fans of this great series. I agree this is the best angels site that i have seen, since the forum section crashed i was hoping some other fans would like to communicate and talk about episodes rather than waiting for them to appear god knows when, I love season four and tiffany is my favorite because she was so different and a trend setter for all women and i respect that, i have done alot of research about season four and tiffany in order to get a real and true understanding of what happened to her because it was brutal and so unfair,so i had to learn all the players here in order to understand it and I have over a 150 different posts on this site about every episode that has been reviewed and alot of things i found that are not in any books and reasons why. Please cruise this great site and you will meet someother people that also have good knowlege and most definatley join in and please feel free to comment, have a wonderful day

Heather

i love all of the angels, but sabrina is my favorite 🙂 i love her so much, she’s extremely unique and i love her masculinity. she’s soo sexy! whenever i watch a scene with her and cheryl together, i get very sad because i know that they’re cute friendly banter is just an act. i don’t understand they’re dislike for each other, they both seem like amazing people. i wonder how they hide it so well, and i wonder if it went back all the way to satan’s school for girls? i really wish i knew the reason for they’re feeling this way. do you remember when the last episode guide was added, and which one it was? ps besides this site i have found some amazing videos dedicated to charlie’s angels on youtube

Heather

but i agree that tiffany was very underrated at the time, and people now see how great she was. she was very beautiful and funny 🙂 i wish people wouldn’t slam her, and say that she’s the reason why the show went down hill because that is not true. the show did not do a good job of handling her entrance

Anthonydeutsch

Heather, please read Loveboat Angels, in my opinion in her alotted nine seconds of action screen time, she shut down the gun battle and made it about her inspite of the weak entrance basically stealing the show anyway.After half a season of burying her ABC finally took charge and finally hired some guest writers to write for and develope this character, give her some profile and see what she can really do, and she did well bringing the show back into the top twenty and the remaining audience started to get to know her and also like her, but s/g meddled at seasons end and replaced her with more display of skin and a new character that looked more like a porn star and the audience totally rejected her resulting in some of the lowest ratings in history, epic fail and backfire robbing us all of the show as ABC cancelled it. Shelley went on and today is a producer and owns her own production company, funny thing is that affter 50 years shee was ahead of her time and we the fanbase finally caught up to her and her Tiffany resulting in she has emerged as the most popular angel of all and sadly she doesn’t even know that her fanbase loves her.

Anthonydeutsch

hi heather,i think what you are saying was early on in the season primarily because the fanbase didn’t get a chance to know her, they were denied seeing her by s/g and lakso, they buried her so deep in the episodes fans forgot she was even there plus all those solo episodes didn’t help her at all.today back then the fanbase was being fed the bullchit by lakso that she couldn’t act, so we the fans didn’t know any better, so we bought into it,today there is hardly a fan that believes that anymore, we now know better and that it was primarily ed lakso fault because he hated her and set out on a mission to sabatage her and her character, please do yourself a favor and check out the polls on this site and you will see how much public opinion has changed, same thing on you-tube. She has emerged as most popular angel of all time and that includes all of them and her popularity keeps growing daily still, amazing. in 2009 sony released season four and finally all the fans that lost interest in the show and missed the second half of the season with new episodes writter by new writers for tiffany and this trio got to see she really was pretty good and no worse than any other angel, plus over the years the story about lakso and his hatred surfaced and everybody knows that it wasn’t shelle’s fault at all.Even ABC said how can it be her fault when she never was on screen and had no diolouge? they figured out what was happening to poor shelley and hired new guest writers to write for her and build some profile for her, in other words give her a fair chance, and she was great and what was left of the fanbase that actually got to see the second half of the season started to really like her and got to know her and thats why fanbase totally rejected season five again look at the polls, it says it all,hope to hear from you soon, take care

Anthonydeutsch

hi heather, good to see you are responding, sabrina was a favorite of mine also until tiffany came along, it was funny that kate and shelley were somewhat similar in their perceptions and how they wanted to be perceived on this show, both of them wanted to be taken and known more for their talents and acting ability rather than sexist display of skin and roles of sexism and cheryl was only to glad to wear skimpy bikinis and portray sexist roles similar to farrah, kate fought to the end for better and more interesting scripts and this is where the problems started i believe, you will never know every detail as they were both professional, yes they had good chemistry, both sabrina and tiff were just as sexy as the others just in a different way. The thing was that made them so different was that they both had the ability to draw you into or to them without all the the sexual overtones and display of skin and neither one liked to cheapen themselves for spelling/goldberg which caused problems

Anthonydeutsch

hi heather, apparantly the site is up and running otherwise we wouldn’t be able to post, I think maybe Anna and Holly who are our two angels in case you didn’t know actually are the owners of this site, I wrote via contact once and got a response from them and another time i wrote, which was my last I didn’t so I assume they are probably just busy with their careers and family or at least I hope thats it because since the release of season four in 2009 to coincide with Farrahs death the interest in both thes sesason and character Tiffany have increased tremendously because most fans lost interest in the season when the producers decided not to focus on the new angel and also succumed to the pressure from the cast for more time off hence what is called solo episodes which aired out of sequence which basically killed off this new angel for a half a season, people wanted to see this new angel and were denied so they started flipping channels and consequently ratings and viewership declined and the producers blamed it on the new actress rather unfairly as history has shown, anyhow with the release of season four most fans purchased it to expand their set 1,2,3,and now 4, the fanbase now got to see what they missed out on and realized this actress and character were rather good and quite interesting, actually she was better than good resulting in some of the finest episodes of the entire series. That is why this website states that tiffany was a totally fine character replacement and that the beautiful, talented, and versatile actress Shelley Hack was robbed, the fanbase was just starting to get to know and like her and poof she was gone, replaced by the very unangelic Julie Rogers portrayed by Tanya Roberts and she was totally rejected by the remaining fanbase, so firing Shelley for all intent purposes ended this great show prematurly cause it finished at #59 in the nielsen ratings in season five and couldn’t go any lower because that was rock bottom, and proof of this is reflected to this day on the popularity or (Q) ratings that still run to this day on this site. Shelley has emerged as the top most popular angel of all time and on a daily basis she keeps distancing herslf from the others, I urge you to take the time and cruise everything in this fabulous site. Hope I didn’t bore you but I just found your request via contact and you said you didn’t get a responce back and shared my experience, hope to hear from you soon , have a wonderful day

Anthonydeutsch

sometimes behind the scenes people don’t get any credit and not much is known about them. Obviously I like Shelly Tiffany character and I thought she was beautiful and it was Nolan Miller who literally begged Aaron Spellind to select her for the new angel, she was in every sense of the word a true high fashion runway model and he envisioned the show becoming a fashion plate of style and latest fashions for todays modern woman, he also said that he and his staff fell in love with her when she visted wardrobe for the first time,he said they were all going to have alot of fun designing and dressing her up. His stas would be responsible for the beautiful looks of her and one thing that can’t be disputed among fans was that whenever Lakso or his minions allowed her on screen she certaintly did look beautiful. A typical day for the lovely Miss Hack was something like up by 5am, a quick cup of coffee with a piece of fruit and off to the set, checking in and reporting to Miss Dorothy Fox who was asigned to do Shelley’s hair style which spelling wanted for the episode, weather you liked or loathed some of these early styles they basically were directed by Aaron and not particulary Shelleys, but he is the boss. Miss Fox used to love playing with Shelley’s hair, then after 2-3 hours off to Mr. Freddie Blau who was assigned to do Shelley’s make up and he also loved playing with her, and when he was finished it was off to wardrobe and Mr. Nolan Miller’s turn to dress her up, something he loved and looked forward to. They use to refer to Shelley as a breathing, walking, and talking Living Doll, she was their personal Barbie Doll, it was smooth sailing at first, that is until Lakso started humiliating and critisizing her for everything from her acting to her looks, to her body, so after awhile naturally she became defensive and it wasn’t quite as much fun for all concerned resulting in some defiance and hurt feelings. This is just another aspect of what happened to Shelley on this set. She truely was a living doll, even Nolans vision of fashion plate was affected and scrapped as witnessed by the cheap look of season five with virtually no clothes budget. It could have been a beautiful thing for all.